The polycrisis is here, and system dynamics can help: a call to action

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The authors call for action from the System Dynamics (SD) community to address global polycrisis and leverage SD’s strengths in modelling complexity, feedback loops, and nonlinear dynamics. They emphasize five key features of the SD approach and community that uniquely position it to contribute to polycrisis analysis: endogenous point of view, scenario analysis, interdisciplinary collaboration, decision-support tools, and identifying leverage points for system recovery.

Author(s)

Vinicius Picanço Rodrigues, Michael Lawrence and Scott Janzwood

Publication Date

7 January 2025

Publisher

System Dynamics Review

DOI / URL

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Resource Type

Academic Journal Article

Resource Theme

Learning resource • Theory Building

Uses the term polycrisis

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